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Although Adobe Acrobat XI adds a plugin for Office 2013 to create a PDF from a Word document, you can also create the PDF within Acrobat. As long as you don't override the default settings to disable editing, the PDF will be fully editable in Acrobat, but not in the default view mode. To later edit the PDF without modifying the original DOCX file, you need to open the Content Editing sidebar.

4. Double-click the Word document to open and automatically convert the Word document. This process could take several minutes to complete and saves the resulting PDF file with the same name in the same location. The newly created PDF automatically opens in Acrobat.

5. Click "Tools" and select "Content Editing" to expand the list of options if it's not already expanded.